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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33940 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #71 / 7494
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #476 / 1287
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18861 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #790 / 3895
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #176 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4833 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #257 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #107 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #15 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10929 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #886 / 3089
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #107 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3969 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #244 / 902
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #567 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hash staircase - 59 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #22 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #209 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1556 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #235 / 386
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #129 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2934 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #239 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2897 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #115 / 643
  • Number of attempts: 7
Convert Application Output to CSV - 214 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #41 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 2
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 83 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5051 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1221 / 1646
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 321 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #100 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #673 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 161 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #12 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 140 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #9 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11562 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #386 / 4235
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #180 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #408 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add to end of each line... kinda - 339 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #29 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 109 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #62 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #27 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vim's not included features - 256 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #36 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2243 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #40 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 6
Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #71 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 2
snowflake fractal - 58 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #16 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #82 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Assign numbers to fields - 121 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #10 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 175 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #40 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #72 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 1
readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #60 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16155 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #242 / 4212
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #117 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #303 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #80 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #47 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10724 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #777 / 3705
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13013 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #598 / 3980
  • Number of attempts: 9
Shebangs for all - 2062 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #34 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 8
Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #111 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

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